SAP Soap Client - authentication

[Former Member]

SAP Soap Client is a great tool.

Anybody knows how to perform a request to a SOAP Server that asks for basic authentication (User/Password)?

Sergio

[Former Member]

Hi Sergio,

I am not sure if I understood, what you need exactly.

If you just need a simple Web Service for testing, you can

create one very easily for example on the SAP Business Connector. Such a Service will ask for basic authentification.

I had problems downloading the SAP Soap Client - how can I get it?

Regards

Peter

[SergioFerrari]

Hi Peter,

you can downlaod the "SAP Soap Client" tool from the home page of sdn (https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/index.sdn).

Try: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/sap soap client tool download.abst

It is simple, flexible and I'm looking for the way to set user/password to the target HTTP Server...

Sergio

[former_member32613]

Hi Sergio,

As far as I know, the SOAP spec is not normative regarding authentication.

One possibility is to rely on soap header entries within the soap message, provided your server uses this mechanism for basic authentication.

But I understand your server is rather relying on http basic authentication, ie user/password entries in the http header.

According to rfc2617, this would result in a "Authorization" http header entry, followed by Base64 encoding of user:password

If this is what you need, you can expect to have it pretty soon with the next release of Soap Client tool.

Best regards,

Vincent

[SergioFerrari]

Hi Vincent, Ok I'm looking forward to see the next release.

Tip:

If the server is a SAP Web AS I can user sap-user and sap-password query parameters.....

Sergio

[former_member32613]

Hi Sergio,

The new release of SAP Soap Client now supports HTTP basic authentication (cf View/Settings menu).

Best regards,

Vincent

[SergioFerrari]

I'm looking forward to test it.

DO you know the url to download the new version? It would be nice to access it from https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/downloadarea.sdn

thanks a lot in any case,

Sergio

[former_member32613]

From this URL ( https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/downloadarea.sdn ) you have to select "Developer or Administrator tool", and then "Web AS".

Best regards,

Vincent

[SergioFerrari]

I got it.

Sergio

[Former Member]

Vincent, thanks for the update to this tool, now I can use it to help test and debug existing web service calls to my 6.20 system. Works great.

Aaron

[Former Member]

Does anyone have an up-to-date link to download this tool? Or if you have the tool, could you share it?

Many thanks,

Derek

Bah! actually, the link above still works. I didn't realise it was jnlp process.

Edited by: Derek Colley on Jun 10, 2009 5:58 PM

[Former Member]

Well, the link works. But where do I get a suitable client certificate the tool is asking for?

Regards,

Robert